Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after general to drive the Leftists back across the river, is estimated to have spent the lives of 70,000 men there since early August. By week's end the Generalissimo had been at least half successful. The Rightists had reached the Ebro River bank along an eight-mile stretch formerly held by their enemy and the Leftist holdings had been reduced to a tiny circle around the main bridgehead at Mora de Ebro...
...close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck caravans down an ancient 3,000-mile trail, now modernized with gas & supply depots, running from Russian Alma Ata to Sian...
...hundred years ago, Charlemagne's dream was realized by Ludwig I of Bavaria, who joined the Rhine's branch, the Main, with the Danube. It was Germany's first canal of any consequence, a 107-mile stretch between Bamberg and Kelheim...
...watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three-quarter post they looked like one horse against the autumn background...
...Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds of his childhood again--and he sees not just one isolated mile of the "run but the whole thing, hundreds of miniature miles of it. There, too, are the men he loves, the hoggers, the scoop-swingers, the men of the punch, the wipers, the brakies--a score of Uncle Romes enthusiastically puttering around their little system, running it with loving appreciation...